A Calcot teenager has been charged with assault and resisting arrest after an altercation in Langley Hill shortly before midnight on Friday.

Thomas Kitching, 19, is from Barclay Road and has been charged with common assault over the incident with a 28-year-old man was allegedly punched in the face. He has also been charged with resisting arrest.

Police were called to reports that the victim had been driving up the road when he came across a large group of people and when he got out of his car to ask what they were doing, it is alleged he was attacked.

Kitching has been released on bail to appear at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Monday, August 16.